module: reduce module image and resident size
Resulting reduction (x86-64, gcc 4.1.2) with my (special purpose, i.e.
much reduced) configurations:
- 16k kernel resident size
- 180k module resident size
- 10k module image size
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index a29c2eb..3e03b1a 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
extern typeof(sym) sym; \
__CRC_SYMBOL(sym, sec) \
static const char __kstrtab_##sym[] \
- __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"))) \
+ __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), aligned(1))) \
= MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #sym; \
static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \
__used \
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index b0d7c2a..031bf26 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1828,8 +1828,9 @@
unwindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, ARCH_UNWIND_SECTION_NAME);
#endif
- /* Don't keep modinfo section */
+ /* Don't keep modinfo and version sections. */
sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
+ sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
/* Keep symbol and string tables for decoding later. */
sechdrs[symindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;